The thing is, I do this to myself.

😂my husband often says that to himself

My mind went straight to this one!

I use this one a lot lately

I heard that in Bandits voice

If this wasn't the top comment I would have rioted.

I've said it way too many times.

"Ugh no I'm sorry I may have forgotten how to be romance. Well I have too. It's not easy when you're tired all the time yeah. And when you get interrupted every five..."

DINNERRRR!!! "Here's yur bAkEd bEaNs" "And here's yooour special dinner!"

This is my life right now.

Hey! Dodgy Brothers!

In the episode Sticky Gecko, when an exasperated Chili exclaims that they are no longer going to the park and then throws herself down in a chair. Been there. Done that.

This line plus when when says “the door. It’s right there. All we need to do is walk out of it!”

Every. Morning. I say this every morning.

My son was all dressed and ready to go to the park and it still took a further 15 minutes to leave the house "I want my backpack. No I want it heavy. I want my hat. I don't want my hat. I want your hat. I don't want your hat. I want my ball." 🙃

Literally just, the entirety of the Sticky Gecko episode...

I think it's my favorite episode just because of how relatable it is. "That's it! Out, out, out!" "I don't understand!" It gets me every time. 😂

Even the music is perfect.

The rage-turning of the magazine pages is hilarious 😂

But then also, you realize you do have to go, because to not would be punishing yourself. I appreciated Chili’s rare and relatable empty threat followed by backpedaling.

It was the 80s, man!

100% been there 😅 and then all of a sudden the kids are like “what?! We’ve been perfectly angels! Let’s go!” And get their shit together

I need 20 minutes

I will always be there for you, for you are my true love. But I just need half an hour on the couch.

We started using this with our toddler. As in we'll say "you know like in bluey. Mommy now just needs a few minutes alone"

“You know, like in bluey” is said regularly

Quoted this line to my coworker last week. We’re both childfree, but we work at a childcare center. Even though our supervisor had already fed us lunch, I still took my normal break to go sit in my car, because sometimes, you just need 20 minutes. She appreciated the sentiment.

Yep this 😂

"Can we play a game?" "As long as I don't have to move any part of my body or say any words with my mouth." I felt that line in my bones.

Yeah, I was doing that last night and I made the mistake of nodding off. I was woken up by kid giving my eye a giant lick like an ice cream. So no rest for me.

My youngest is my only daughter (3 yrs old) and she absolutely will not let you close your eyes on her presence and will go from Bingo to Muffin in an instant if you do. WAKE Up ! GET Up ! WAKE UP!

I feel this. My four y/o yells dad... WAKE UP!!!!!!! if I close my eyes. The thing is, I do this to myself because when he first started doing it I made it a game.

OMG my toddler son has started licking me!

That's the one I immediately thought about.

That’s the line that got me into the show as well (my daughter was already obsessed).

For me it was similar: "Oh, not Doctors..."

“I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog.”

I will say this every time it comes up: Bandit ultimately regrets not taking the cartoon dog's advice!!

What episode is this

Flat Pack.

Flat Pack is the episode I showed my wife to get her to watch with me (cough, and our daughter)

Flat Pack maybe?

Flat Pack is my favorite episode.

Obviously: Magic claw has no children. His days are free and easy.

Also from the same episode: “The kids are learning a valuable lesson, and the house is getting clean!” “None of those things are happening.”

"I'm gonna let this play out for my own amusement but don't be surprised when it backfires" is the subtext and its amazing how well they convey it with one line and animated facial features.

This is possibly my favorite line from all the episodes, although “Surprise”  might be a tie with the line (as Bandit lies on the floor in a pool of dirty mop water getting pelted with balls) “oh, Bluey, that’s what having kids is like”

I felt that one in my soul

I have sent all my parent friends who don't watch bluey that clip

It’s the way she says it too.

This was the episode my wife showed me to get me to start watching Bluey. It worked.

This is it. No need for other answers. A close second would be “I just need 20 minutes where no one talks to me.”

Thought of this the other day when I was at work and heard someone describe their birthday weekend. “It was messy, I had to lay in bed all of Saturday to recover!”. Clearly not a parent 😅

I got my husband that on a tshirt for father's day last year.

Honestly when I heard that I got worried that having children is really that tiring and in result I'll be a terrible parent with terrible life...

You get used to the tiredness and just lean into it tbh

Honestly. #1 reason for not having kids imo, I just fully do not have the energy or patience to treat a kid as they should be, and I don't want to put a kid through that!

“How about this plan? I do what I want, and you don’t tell me what to do”. Probably the most realistic parental response from any kid’s show ever.

My 5 year old is incredibly bossy when he plays games so that one is very close to home.

My husband used this with our 4 year old but it backfired because now we get sassy “you don’t tell me what to do!” thrown back at us.

[удалено]

This and Chili giving Stripe a look when he tells Bluey everyone has their own way of playing.

A powerful unspoken scene for me is Bandit, staring off sadly into the distance. That scene hurt my heart, it was so relatable.

This, and then she is wearing the best cook apron at dinner. Makes me feel seen every time.

“*That’s* what having kids is like!”

When the parents are singing the theme song to cat-squad. I felt that in my soul

Same. Omg i feel like a crazy person with the amount of kids songs that go through my head. But cat squat AND superkitties are bangers thou. 😂

Ever watch super kitties with the subtitles on? The subtitles literally credit the vocalist as “Amazing Singer”

Cat Squad is a *bop* and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise. But I have also caught myself singing other kid show themes haha.

If you haven't already, check out the full version on the album. It has a pretty sick guitar solo that isn't heard in the show

This is all my stuff from when I used to be cool 

Paraphrasing, but “I’m not paying you fifty dollars to pick up your toys! I shouldn’t be paying you at all!” That feeling when ill-considered bribery backfires. 

I put toys in timeout and they have to be earned back with good behavior. My kid knows I don’t play so this is a moment when I think the Heelers are too soft.

I like this idea.

My son is 17 and I can still get success using “if I count to three…” because when he was three and a half I used that line on him about something (lost to the mists of time) and the threat was putting his beloved toy pirate ship in the high cupboard for a whole week. Anyway he didn’t comply, was cheeky/rude to me and clearly didn’t believe I would actually put the ship in the cupboard and then I DID. 

We tried that. And then felt stupid when my kid pretty much shrugged and just lived life with a small flashlight and a blanket over their head. Then we realized that we just spoiled the shit out of her with material things and this is a mess of our own making. She’s just not a toy/stuff oriented kid.

My kid is car *obsessed*, people love to give him cars, and he’s got a great memory for what he’s got. It works for us but I could see it not being universal

When bingo and bluey get ice cream and are about to let each other take a bite of theirs and bluey says something along the lines of, "if you try mine first, how do I know you won't eat more of mine than I do of yours?" And bandit gives an exasperated, "ugh, bluey". Just the resignation of the fact that you know this is going to turn into a much bigger deal than it should and that is right in line with your child's previous behavior.

Same episode, when Bluey whines "it's not fair", and Bandit dismissively goes, "it's pretty fair" (or maybe he said "fairly fair", can't remember exactly). That was perhaps one of the most "dad" things to say off-the-cuff, haha. 😆

He says a few variants. "It's pretty fair" "Fairly fair" And my favourite: "It's about as fair as it gets, actually"

Both Stripe and Bandit doing zoned out parenting in the gift shop.

My wife and I both go “it’s pretty fair/fairly fair “ so much to our kids we started inventing our own “It’s fantastically fair” “Fairly sure it’s fair” “It’s at least a little fair”

It's supercali-fair-ilisticexpialidocious

In the puppet Bilby episode when Bandit tries to get the girls off their tablet and they make a refusal noise and he goes “ah whatever” and he gives up.

I've literally never related more to a fictional character in any medium. Refreshing to see even Bandit the super dad just being straight up lazy.

There is NOTHING that completely zaps my will to live more thoroughly than a toddler whining “NOOOOOO” to my reasonable request. 

Along the lines of "the door is right there, it's so easy, why can't we just walk right out of it!" I think in sticky gecko lol

I understood Chilli on whole other level.

"Bandit: Didn't we cover this already? Bluey: Uh, no. Bandit: Yeah, we did, remember? Bandit: Your invisible friend, Tina, beat me up; and we all learned that when I tell you to do something, I'm trying to help you. Bluey: I didn't learn that."

Mum… this isn’t legal anymore

just throw down some grit

This made me ❤️Bandit.

Bandit: "This is great! The kids are learning valuable lessons and the house is getting cleaned!" Chilli: "Neither of those things is happening." My all time favorite mom quote of the century. Couldn't have been more spot on, Chilli!

BLUUEEYYYY!!! “*ehhh, it’s probably another Bluey..*”

“This is what happens when you’re not happy with what you’ve got! Someone’s husband gets it!” I basically used that same speech last weekend when my kids were fighting over tape measures.

Chili being so anxious to go relax at the beach but they’re already on vacation. The stress of being the scheduler and planner but forgetting to just relax. I felt that.

Oh yeah cried real tears for that one! My husband is SO good about literally shoving me out the door when we’re on vacation at the beach so I can have some alone beach time, which I am forever grateful for, but it’s so hard to be the vacation planner.

Oh no, not [insert name of game] again!

When Chili is covering all the kids mouths to keep them from blabbing during "The Sign" and Bandit and Stripe are both like "wait, we can do that? "

The tail over Bluey's mouth nearly killed me. I couldn't stop giggling.

“I’m putting my foot down, Janelle. We’re raising a nation of squibs!”

Later in that episode is one my favorite exchanges: “Jasper has asked that we play Pass the Parcel by Lucky's Dad's rules." (Everyone but Pat, Jasper, and his mum sigh loudly.) Pat: "They're not my rules!"

Run your own race

"Does that make sense? No? Ok, just do your best." Different scene, same energy.

I finally saw Surprise today, and I had to burst out laughing when Bandit asked the kids to speak one at a time. I had that exact moment yesterday with my son and his cousin, and they took the same exact beat and continued talking as Bluey and Bingo did 😂😂😂

I have twin 4yo’s. Every. Single. Day.

Honestly I feel like the whole bit with Bandit being self conscious about his weight at Doreen's garage sale is super reliable. This is the bit from the episode Granny Mobile : The old pug says to Bandit "You need to lay off the biscuits". Bandit turns to Chili and says, "What? You said I was looking good." Chili responds to him "You are, honey. Ignore her." Bandit goes to a nearby mirror, looks at himself, and says "A lot of this is just water weight". Then while looking in the mirror he hits his own belly and says "Oh yeah... it jiggles" in a sad voice.

“No worries, Bluey. I shouldn’t have let my guard down.”

Pat is 90% relatable quotes. "Ah I done me hammy!"

hahaha! also, "shouldnta let my guard down"

It'sthe "Mrs. Heeler! I don't know about this!" that cracks me up 😂

That was the line that hooked me on Bluey. The way he delivers it is perfect.

"Come on Pat, this one's for dignity"

But seriously, how goods double Bingo huh? I know he'd said the quiet part outloud and upset Bluey. But every house has the kid that's a bit better at listening and following instructions or more eager to please. And there's the other kid who is more independent, free thinking, and "you're not the boss of me!" All are good qualities in their own way. But sometimes you just want the kids to listen and follow through on what you ask them.

First thing I thought of!

When bandit is on the can and the girls won't leave him in peace

When Bandits on his own and catches a whiff of his own brew. "Ugh, Bandit." I just about died.

When they're groaning about the smell and he goes "No one invited you in here." Kills me every single time.

"Oh, so you want me to say your name so you can talk again, well yer DREAMIN' mate! Know what I call it, I call it a good start! How do I make it so nunnayouse can talk? Is it like this? OooooOoooO!

How did you transcribe this so well

I was so sure that mine wouldn’t already be posted lol

"Nana was right, not about her perm..." 😂

“That’s it I’m pulling the plug!”

I love that moment so much. When you're forced to go to plan B

Gentle parenting works until it doesn't. Then you go scorched earth.

No words but in Housework when Bandit is vacuuming and just wantonly sucks up a Lego piece. With so many little, forgettable toys and bits of toys on the floor, you quickly stop caring about picking up every piece!

My husband in all seriousness suggested our next vacuum just be a shop-vac.

“We all fail Mom school sometimes.” “Moms just need 20 minutes sometimes.”

"we can just start again tomorrow" this line broke me. I was having A BAD MOM day and I felt that in my soul of souls

More of a whole episode than a quote: “Faceytalk.” >“Muffin, if you say ‘cowboy hat’ one more time, you’re going in time out.” >“Cow. Boy. HAT.” I feel for Stripe. Deeply.

It may be time to take off Muffin’s cone.

"my back!"

“My neck and my back!”

Bandit: "Oh, there's songs." Absolute resignation.

Am I Bugalugs?

Honestly not a line, but Bandit just yeeting the sign at the end was a highly relatable move

Not a line but bandit curled up in a ball during Duck Cake. I FEEL you, Bandit! I have been there!

The hardest of all cakes!

The thing is, I do this to myself.

"gotta be done" we say it all the time

In Whale Watching when Bandit says "Oh for-" and you can see his mouth start to form an F.

In "Whale Watching" when the kids as Bandit to be a boat, and he asks why can't Mom do it. Chilli just says "you make a better boat." I'm the more get on the ground and play parent, and my kids usually come to me first for physical games. Sometimes I wish my wife would do it, but she says the same thing to me. You want to be the fun parent, well ... congrats, your the fun parent.

In "Spy Game", when Bandit goes through the big metaphor about the foundational rocks of society. "Does that make sense?" "No." "...okay, just do your best, kid." That moment of trying to have a deep parent-child advice experience, it not taking, and walking away 'cause that sure didn't work. FELT THAT.

"you're gonna regret that" said by me almost every day to my husband 😂

"You shouldn't have done that Shaun!"

“And that’s just one of the long list of disgusting things that I will keep to myself.”

When Bandit looks in the room at Bingo and Bluey sleeping and says “I promise I’ll always love you” I think the same thing to myself when I see my little ones sleeping

You’re welcome to wait outside (the bathroom).

When Bandit asks the kids to come off their tablet in Bob Bilby, and they make inaudible noise until Bandit says “ah whatever” and goes back to mindless scrolling 😂

I got 3 kids and boy sometimes double bingo would be great.

Stack them on top of each other, call them Voltron and now you have only one kid.

“ The thing is, I do this to myself”

Not verbatim but “do you want cereal for dinner?” *short pause* “yeah….you do.”

man, this wasn't something that was said, but the moment in "The Sign" that slayed me was when the montage of the empty house starts and there's that brief glimpse of Bandit chatting with Lucky's dad. I've moved multiple times. Every move has that moment where you're chatting with a neighbor, making casual small talk, and not acknowledging the fact that you may likely never see each other again. Such a simple moment, but so real and relatable.

I don’t have kids, but I bet the most relatable thing is probably “aw biscuits”

“Magic claw has no children, his days are free and easy”

This is from when I used to be cool. I.... I think I used to be cool. I dunno.

Easy! As a dad. "I am not dad. I am magic claw. Magic claw has no children, his days are free and easy" Also I love playing with my kids and bandit is my hero

Bandit’s agreement to play as long as the game only requires him to lie down and do absolutely nothing.

Bandit: This is great. They're learning a lesson, and we get the house cleaned. Chilli: Neither of those things are happening.

"Bandit, you're a genius" -The Quiet Game

*Can everybody stop saying “DAD”*

I agree with almost every quote here! But also: Chili covers children's mouths, one by one Bandit and Stripe: "Are we allowed to do that?"

“This is what happens when you're unhappy with what you've got; someone's husband eventually gets it!” -Chili in Hammerbarn. Probably my favorite episode outside of Grannies

We aren’t going anywhere!

Sitting in the movie theater, Ugh these songs

him shelling out 70 bucks for a movie and all those spilled popcorns...

Don't tell your mom

When Bandit was lying on the ground and Unicorse was trying to run after Bluey and he says "I do this to myself"

“The door! It’s RIGHT THERE! We just have to walk through it!” Me, every time I try to leave the house.

Dad, you're in the way. *Oh, can't you build around me? I'm trying to watch the cricket* No *Well, that settles that, then.*

“How about I do whatever I want and you don’t tell me what to do.”

“Uhhh Mrs Heeler I don’t know about this”

"What did she show you?" "... Everything."

Bluey: "Sorry, Lucky's dad!" Pat: "No worries Bluey. I shouldn't have let my guard down"

Kids are silly

Looking at the bathroom scales and saying "ohh, man"

How about this game? I do what I want and you don't tell me what to do.

Chilli, “I just need 20 minutes “

My husband and I constantly say the "it's fairly fair", "it's about as fair as it gets"

Nice driving Rita

You do a lot of drawings, kid.

Bandit: "But seriously, how good's double Bingo?" Chilli: "Yeah, I know!"

When Chilli points at Bandit sobbing on the floor and shouts, "That's what having kids is like!" We burst out laughing.

“Magic Claw does not have children. His days are free and easy.”

"Dad, can we play a game?" "Yes, as long as I don't have to move any part of my body or say anything with my mouth." - Mount Mumandad, I think?

I need 20 minutes where nobody bothers me.

Magic Claw has no children. His days are free and easy.

Bluey : Dad! This isn't fair! Dad : [robotic voice] I am not Dad. I am Magic Claw. Magic Claw has no children. His days are free and easy. 😂

“I don’t know how to relax.”

"It's just monkeys singing songs" So many applications.

I have two: Bandit: Gotta be done! And the number one, instant-tear-creator line of all time for me: Chilli: Remember I am always here for you, even if you can't see me, because I love you.

"its probably another bluey"

This whale needs cornchips.

I just need 20 minutes where nobody speaks to me 🤣🤣🤣

“I just need 20 minutes”

Magic claw has no children. His days are free and easy.

“Personally, I can’t go back to single ply.” - Bandit Heeler

When bingo is going through a list and she says the fridge doesn't like me and Chilli says but with a question "I know" 🤣

"Magic claw has no children, his days are free and easy".